Grade 2 - Music Unit - Ontario Arts Curriculum

Music Unit - Grade 2 – Ontario Arts Curriculum. This 99-page resource was created to cover all the overall and specific expectations in the Ontario Music Curriculum.

There are 27 music assignments that will engage your students from start to finish. Included are:

• Activity sheets with embedded lesson plan instructions
• Planning pages for students to organize their performances
• Criteria to keep students and teachers focused on the elements of music being taught
• Reflection pages for students to reflect on their strengths and weaknesses
• Rubrics for assessment

Within these activities, students will learn the overall expectations:

• C1: Creating and Performing – using the creative process to create and perform musical pieces.
• C2: Reflecting, Responding, and Analysing – thinking critically about their own performances as well as other’s performances.
• C3: Exploring Forms and Cultural Contexts – identifying and performing music important to their lives and from other cultures.

Assignments included:

• Feel the Beat!
• Activity: Rhythm Moves with Body Percussion
• The Shape of Sound
• Activity: Drawing Melody Paths
• Game: Rhythm Relay Race
• Discovering Musical Timbre
• Game: What’s That Sound?
• Understanding Music Form
• Activity: Move to the Music
• Parts of a Song
• Activity: Verse or Chorus?
• Music Gets Loud and Soft
• Activity: Drawing the Music!
• Activity: Tempo Toss
• Making Music with Words
• Activity: Animal Rhythm Parade
• Snowman – Music Vocabulary
• Composing
• Activity: Write Your Own Verse
• Activity: Feel the Music!
• Same Song, Different Sound
• Activity: One Song, Two Feelings
• Memory Game: Symbol to Sound Match-Up
• Activity: My Special Music Memory
• The Story Inside the Sound
• Activity: Imagine the Music
• Game: Mysteries in Music

This is a comprehensive unit that will save you hours of planning! It has everything you need to feel confident that you are covering the Ontario Music curriculum.

BOTH GOOGLE SLIDES AND PDF VERSIONS INCLUDED!